Lon Chaney plays Blizzard, a deranged psychopath scarred by the childhood operation where a young doctor mistakingly amputated both of his legs. Hellbent on revenge Blizzard becomes a master criminal. This is one of Lon Chaney's most famous non-horror roles. This is copied from video mastered off a well worn home movie print.
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Topics: Feature Films, Silent films, Lon Chaney, Wallace Worsley, Gouverneur Morris
Philo Vance investigates one of his most famous locked-room murders.
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Topics: mystery, philo vance, michael curtiz, warner bros, william powell, mary astor, Ralph Morgan, arthur...
Rare lost episode of Mr Ed. One of only two episodes that are in the Public Domain. This episode is, essentially, an episode length public service announcement on behalf of the US treasury. Wilbur and Mr Ed extol the virtues of payroll saving plans and their benefits for the American way of life. Alan Young (Wilbur), Connie Hines (Carol), Mr Ed (Mr Ed), George O'Hanlon (The Electrician) Directed by Arthur Lubin IMDB page
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Topics: Classic TV, Mr Ed, Alan Young, Public Service Announcement, Bonds, Payroll, Rare, Lost Episode
Some different prints of the all-time classic. 1. Raw untouched video master - how the film has been seen on late night TV and PD video's and DVDs for years. 2. A remastered version of the film presented in HD. 3. Rare international widescreen theatrical release print presented 16:9 enhanced. Copyright Status: PUBLIC DOMAIN Published without a valid Copyright Notice. Type of Work: Cancelled Registration Cancelled Registration Number: PA0000046101 PA reg. cancelled. Published pre ’78 without...
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Topics: horror, zombie, low budget, independent
An amusing take on American History
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Topics: Animation, Cartoon
The 11th film in the Rathbone/Bruce Sherlock Holmes series, "The Woman In Green" explores Professor Moriarty's plan to blackmail wealthy gentlemen, making them think they murdered the young female victims of a Jack The Ripper style serial killer. This is a slightly better print than the others already available on the Internet Archive. Copyright Status: PUBLIC DOMAIN Registered for copyright LP13455 25 July 1945: THE WOMAN IN GREEN. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., 1945. 7 reels, sd....
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Topics: Sherlock Holmes, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Henry Daniel, Hillary Brooke, Paul Cavanagh, Arthur...
WWII Pacific War documentary
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Topics: World War II, US Navy, WWII Programs, Japan, Iwo Jima
Original theatrical trailer
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Topics: Postman Always Rings Twice, Trailer, Lana Turner, John Garfield, Film Noir
Comedy short featuring Shirley Temple
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Topic: Shirley Temple, comedy, short
"Douglas Fairbanks Jr Presents Bulldog Drummond and 'The Ludlow Affair'" Series 5 Episode 13 (28 January 1957) This was made as a pilot for a possible series. When it wasn't picked up the pilot was used as an episode in the "Douglas Fairbanks Presents" series. Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr - Host Robert Beatty - Bulldog Drummond Greta Gynt - Mrs. Harriette Ludlow Michael Ripper - Kelly William Franklyn - Roger Benning Harry Lane - Kinsella John Le Mesurier - Inspector Burroughs...
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Topics: Classic TV, Bulldog Drummond, Douglas Fairbanks Jr Presents, Failed Pilot, Robert Beatty
A death row inmate tells the story of how he got his sentence. He was a baby photographer who made the mistake of looking for adventure by agreeing to look after his neighbor's private-eye establishment.
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Topics: bob hope, dorothy lamour, peter lorre, lon chaney jr, reginald denny, ann doran, jack larue, bing...
This 1920 silent film was made by Kenneth Brampton, who wrote, produced, directed and starred in it. The story concerns a real life bushranger (outlaw) named Captain Starlight, who became a national hero (like Ned Kelly). It is based on a classic Australian novel by Rolf Boldrewood (the pen name of Thomas Browne). This was the third film of the novel. The first, directed by Charles McMahon, was an early feature film made shortly after "The Story of the Kely Gang". The second was made...
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Topic: Bushrangers, Western, Australia, Kenneth Brampton
The Sealed Room
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Topics: the sealed room, d w griffith, mary pickford
Official NASA film of the Apollo 17 Mission
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Topics: Space, Apollo missions, NASA, Government Films
A man is held captive by island natives who believe that his daughter has stolen a pearl belonging to their idol. This is a five reel truncated 1922 Realart print of the Houdini mystery missing a large chunk from the middle of this originally seven reel production.
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Topics: harry houdini, silent film, paramount pictures, mystery, realart, magician, illusionist, island,...
Early Jack Nicholson teenage delinquent movie
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Topics: Jack Nicholson, teenage delinquent, hot rod, drag race
Classic entry into L Frank Baum's silent Wizard of Oz Series. Cast Violet MacMillan...Dorothy, a Kansas girl who is wandering in the Land of Oz Frank Moore...The Scarecrow Pierre Couderc...The Tin Woodman Fred Woodward...The Cowardly Lion / The Kangaroo / The Crow / The Cow / The Mule Raymond Russell...King Krewl Arthur Smollet...Googly-Goo, a wealthy courtier J. Charles Haydon...The Wizard of Oz (as J. Charles Hayden) Todd Wright...Pon, the Gardener's Boy Vivian Reed...Princess Gloria, niece...
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Topics: Oz, Wizard of Oz, L Frank Baum, The Scarecrow
Heath Haldane (Houdini) attempts to track down the vicious criminal gang responsible for his government agent father's death while also saving the girl he loves.
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Topics: harry houdini, houdini picture corp, magician, action, g-man, secret service, crime, mystery,...
The film is based on C.J. Dennis' 1915 Australian poem The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke. The film was produce by a South Australian company, The Southern Cross Feature film Co, and shot in New South Wales. Most of the exteriors were filmed in the Sydney suburb Woolloomooloo, Manley Beach, Bondi and The Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney. Interiors were shot at Wonderland City in Bondi. The text on the inter-titles (designed by Lyell) was taken directly from Dennis' poem. Raymond Longford and...
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Topics: Australia, C J Dennis
A collection of theatrical trailers for the Basil Rathbone-Nigel Bruce "Sherlock Holmes" films.
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Topics: Trailer, Sherlock Holmes, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce
Official NASA film about the first 40 days on board Skylab
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Topics: NASA, Government Films, Space, Skylab, Space Stations
Cecil B Demille's 1915 film of Prosper Merimee's 1845 novella (which was the basis of Bizet's famous opera.) Carmen, a gypsy woman, seduced lawyer Don Jose in an attempt to assist her clan's smuggling trade. Don Jose is obsessed with Carmen and turns to crime to maintain her attentions.
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Topics: crime, carmen, don jose, prosper merimee, cecil b demille, jesse lasky, romance, obsession, love,...
Season One Episode 16 (5 January 1959) An honest union leader is killed with a car bomb and suspicion falls on his chief rival, who hires Gunn to clear his name. This video is public domain because it was registered as a published film PETER GUNN. Spartan Productions. Approx. 29 min. each, sd., b&w. 16mm. Spartan Productions. The Fuse. 5 Jan 59 (in notice: 1958) LP 15083 and never renewed.
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Topics: Classic Tv, Peter Gunn, Craig Stevens, Blake Edwards, Private Detective
Legendary Valentino picture. Valentino stars as an Arabian who falls in love with an English woman in this classic silent picture. Visit the IMDB page here.
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Topics: Rudolph Valentino, Adventure, Romance, The Sheik, Paramount, Jesse Lasky, Silent Films
government documentary film about savage weather.
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Topics: weather, tornado, day of the killer tornadoes
Alfred Hitchcock presents a featurette about PSYCHO
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Topics: Feature Films, Featurettes, Film Marketing, Universal Pictures, Alfred Hitchcock
An attempt to create a coherent narrative out of all surviving fragments of Australia's first feature length film. Sections from the final reel are heavily decomposed. Running at just over 20 minutes, this is possibly the longest available version. What the posters said: "A thrilling moving picture from start to finish" "The Most Sensational, The Most Thrilling and Interesting LIVING PICTURES EVER TAKEN." Written and Directed by Charles Tait 1868-1933 Released: December 1906...
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Topics: Australia, Bushrangers, Ned Kelly, Silent Film, Early Features, Lost Films, Fragments
Classic Max Fliescher cartoon made for Bray Studios.
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Topics: Max Fleischer, Out of The Inkwell, Supernatutral, Paranormal
documentary about the eruption of Mt St Helens
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Topics: Mt St Helens, Volcano, eruption, science, study, evacuation, civil defense, proceedure
A film noir exploration of the doppelganger theme. A criminal attempts to impersonate his psychiatrist double. Directed by Steve Sekely
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Topics: film noir, paul henreid, Joan Bennet, Steve Sekely
Sherlock Holmes parody made with marionettes.
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Topics: Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, Marionettes
Three cheap musical boxes (each one playing a subtly different version of "The Swagman"), manufactured in Dartmoor Prison, are sold at a local auction house. However, a criminal gang is determined to steal and recover all three, even if it means committing murder. Sherlock Holmes tries to recover the music boxes and crack the secret code contained in the tune before the gang can get what they want. This version is slightly better quality that the other versions available on the...
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Topics: Sherlock Holmes, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Patricia Morrison, Holmes Herbert, Harry Cording,...
This is a failed pilot for a "Three Stooges" TV show. The concept of the show was that the Stooges would try a new profession each show. In this episode they are interior decorators. Features Moe, Larry and Shemp
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Topics: Classic TV, The Three Stooges, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Shemp Howard, Failed Pilot, Kinoscope
Mutt and Jeff play Sherlock Holmes style detectives on the trail of the mysterious "Phantom". Originally release in 1926, this film was hand coloured in the early 1930s and re-released.
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Topics: Mutt and Jeff, Sherlock Holmes, Colourised by Hand
Some surviving fragments of the world's first feature length narrative film. Heavily decomposed What the posters said: "A thrilling moving picture from start to finish" "The Most Sensational, The Most Thrilling and Interesting LIVING PICTURES EVER TAKEN." Written and Directed by Charles Tait 1868-1933 Released: December 1906 (Australia) January 1908 (Britain) 1910 (USA) Special contents of this edition copyright 2009 Shane I Sullivan. Permission to use these items is granted...
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Topics: Australia, Bushrangers, Ned Kelly, Silent Film, Early Features, Lost Films, Fragments
This one hour TV special tells the story of Hollywood from the advent of sound up to the modern day. Originally Aired 28 November 1962. Hosted by Henry Fonda.
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Topics: Classic TV, Hollywood, Henry Fonda, Movie Stars, TV Special
Failed pilot for a proposed British Sherlock Holmes series starring John Longdon (Hitchcock's "Blackmail" and "The Skin Game") as Sherlock Holmes. Campbell Singer plays Dr Watson and the episode also features Walter Gotell (70s and 80s Bond pictures) as Luzatto. The story is based on the canonical adventure "The Man With The Twisted Lip".
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Topics: Classic TV, Sherlock Holmes, Failed Pilots, John Longdon
These are most of the surviving Blooper reels produced by The Warner Club an organisation comprising Warner Bros Stars and Crew. These reels were produced most years and shown at their annual dinner to poke fun at the mistakes that had been made during that year's productions. Some of the people who appear Eddie Acuff, Eddie Albert, Mary Astor, Ralph Bellamy, Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, George Brent, Sheila Bromley, James Cagney, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Gary Cooper, Bette...
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Topics: Bloopers, Gag Reel, Warner Bros, Stars
This is a rare episode of "You Asked For It", a program that originated in 1950 on the Du Mont Network, moved to the ABC network in the mid 50s, where it was cancelled in 1959, only to be revived three times in subsequent decades. The premise of the show was that viewers would choose the entertainment by writing in and requesting a program about a certain subject or featuring a certain personality, character or act. Many people cite this as the first example of reality TV because it...
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Topics: Classic TV, Du Mont Network, ABC, You Asked For It, Bela Lugosi
This rare Sherlock Holmes film was released at the same time as the Raymond Massey picture "The Speckled Band". The story is partly based on two Conan Doyle short stories: "The Final Problem" and "The Empty House". Sceptical about the potential success of the film, the producers sold the rights to the film to "First Division Pictures" for 800 pounds. The film was released in July 1931 under the title "Sherlock Holmes' Fatal Hour". It was very...
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Topics: Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Wontner, Mystery, Lost Films
A 1944 Columbia Phantasy cartoon parodying Sherlock Holmes. Originally released in Black and White. Hairlock Combs and his assitant Gotsome, of 223 Baker St, attempt to solve the mystery of a disappearing dinosaur skeleton.
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Topics: Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, Animation, Columbia, Phantasy, Cartoon
This is the 7 January 1951 Episode of the Colgate Comedy Hour hosted by Abbott and Costello. IMDB page here .
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Topics: Classic TV, Variety, Colgate Comedy Hour, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello
The only PD episode of Burke's Law. Episode Title: "Who Killed Jason Shaw" S1 E15 This show was originally set to air on 22 November 1963. It was pushed back by the network's coverage of John F Kennedy's assassination. This film is in the public domain because its copyright was not renewed in 1991, which was the necessary time for any film with a date in notice of 1963.
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Topics: Classic TV, Gene Barry, Burke's Law, Millionare Detective
Full Title: Marvellous Melbourne - Queen City of the South An early documentary film about the City of Melbourne, then the interim capital city of Australia. Made in 1910. The director Charles Cozens Spencer was famous for his bushranger films: "Captain Starlight" (Robbery Under Arms), "Captain Midgnight - The Bush King", "The Life and Adventures of John Vane, The Notorious Australian Bushranger", "Dan Morgan, The Terror of the Australian Bush" (Mad Dog...
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Topics: Documentaries, Australia, Melbourne
Filmed in November 1903 at Edison's New York studio, at Essex County Park in New Jersey, and along the Lackawanna railroad and released in December 1903, "The Great Train Robbery" is considered to be one of the first significant early US narrative films. Greatly influenced by the British film "Daring Daylight Robbery" (1903) it introduced many new cinematic techniques (cross cutting, double exposure, camera movement and location shooting) to American audiences. It was...
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Topics: 1903, Silent, Thomas Edison, Edwin S Porter, Great Train Robbery, pdmovies
This is the greatest of all Austrlian Silent films. Made just before the advent of synchronised sound, this film had a limited period of commercial viabilty before it dissapeared from sight. Based on the serialised novel by Marcus Clarke, this was the most expensive film produced in Australia at the time. It costed 50,000 pounds when the average Australian film was made for around 1000 pounds. The film stars George Fisher as Richard Devine/Rufus Dawes/John Rex and Eva Novak as Sylvia Vickers...
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Topics: Australia, Silent Film, Epic, Marcus Clarke, Convicts, Wrongly Convicted, Doubles, Scandal
Season One Episode 17 (19 January 1959) After a Jewel robbery, a very nervous man hires Gunn to protect someone named Timothy from being murders. Gunn finds out the Timothy is a seal. Based on the Richard Diamond radio play "Timothy The Seal" This video is public domain because it was registered as a published film PETER GUNN. Spartan Productions. Approx. 29 min. each, sd., b&w. 16mm. Spartan Productions. Let's Kill Timothy. 19Jan59 (in notice: 1958); LP13981 and never renewed.
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Topics: Classic TV, Peter Gunn, Craig Stevens, Blake Edwards, Private Detective, Richard Diamond adapted to...
Cecil Hepworth's 1903 adaptation of Alice in Wonderland
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Topics: Alice in Wonderland, Cecil Hepworth, Nitrate Film, 1903
Season 2 Episode 41 Original Air Date 19 June 1950 CAST Robert Sterling Charles Korvin Virginia Gilmore Richard Purdy Ann Shoemaker Harry Cooke Marion Scanlon Robert Emhardt James Coots Butch Cavell Contains original Westinghouse Ads with Betty Furness
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Topics: Classic TV, Studio One
Live teleplay from CBS's "Studio One" program. Season 5 Episode 13 (22 December 1952) Features original Westinghouse promotions presented by Betty Furness.
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Topics: Christmas, Studio One, Live Teleplay
